This Week In History: Special Field Order No. 15
On January 16, 1865, U.S. Army Gen. William T. Sherman issued Special Field Order No. 15, appropriating the Sea Islands and coastal lands for freedmen. Gen. Rufus Saxon was given the task of assigning the head of each family 40 acres and the temporary use of a horse or mule, likely the origin of the expression “40 acres and a mule.”
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